Sunday, March 2, 2008

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Contemporary Film Series: Around the World
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Cantadas (29:30 minutes, 2003)
A cemetery on Isla de los Muertos (Island of the Dead) is the site of the mysterious death and burial of workers who came to the remote Patagonain coastline of Southern Chile in the early years of the 20th Century.

Wave Cycle/Onda Ciclica (11:20 minutes, 1996)
This film considers the established circuit of communication among the isolated inhabitants of a vast and extreme landscape through the exchange of messages over the radio.

Sendas Huatecas Uatecas a Tecas: Huapangos (28:30 minutes, 2006)
This film presents an exploration of the music in the Huasteca region of the northern Gulf Mountains of Mexico. Music is a form of expression and economic liberation of its players who engage in traditional field work.

Doubt, Faith and Conviction
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Following the final performance of Doubt, a discussion about the nature of Doubt, Faith and Conviction will take place, led by an esteemed panel of community members.

The discussion on Doubt, Faith & Conviction will explore questions raised by playwright John Patrick Shanley. Nicknamed "Bard of the Bronx," Shanley is the Academy Award-winning writer of the film Moonstruck, and he recently directed a film version of Doubt that will be released December 2008 starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Moderating the discussion is Robert Van Gulick, department chair and professor of philosophy in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. The five person panel includes Father Linus DeSantis from St. Thomas More Campus Ministry at the Alibrandi Catholic Center at SU; M. Gail Hamner, associate professor and future professoriate program director of the religion department in SU's College of Arts and Sciences; Melody Holmes, director of Jail Ministry, a grassroots organization affiliated with Catholic Charities of Onondaga County; Robert Flower, associate professor of philosophy at Le Moyne College; and Cecil Abrahams, professor of cultural foundations of education and English in SU's College of Arts and Sciences. Kyle Bass, Literary Associate at Syracuse Stage, will host the event.

Panelists will each have an opportunity to share their expert opinions on topics including doubt as a prerequisite for faith and the difference between faith and conviction. Members of the audience will also be invited to ask questions and share their opinions.

The story of Doubt takes place against the backdrop of the Cold War, shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, during the desegregation of schools and in the midst of Pope John XXIII's reformative Vatican II. With great change can come feelings of doubt, evidenced by the central conflict between the two main characters in the play.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, Doubt explores what happens when a strict principal, Sister Aloysius, comes to believe that a popular young priest has engaged in inappropriate conduct with a male student. Sister Aloysius has no evidence, but is certain that the priest, Father Flynn, is guilty. What follows is a dynamic mono e mono fueled by Shanley's thought-provoking, witty dialogue that tests the boundaries of religion, faith, community and truth. Is Sister Aloysius protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in the unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man?

The Candlelight String Quartet
Arts Alive in Liverpool

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Light classical favorites.

The Shape of Life
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Barbara Marble Tagg, conductor
Featuring Bruce Coville and Open Hand Theater

Price: $18, $14 regular, $16, $12 students/seniors
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This one-of-a-kind performance, written by award-winning author Bruce Coville, will feature a collaboration with Open Hand Theater. Choristers and audience members will share the joy of singing together as they explore the tradition of shape-note singing.

Graduate Composition Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Elizabeth Luttinger, composer

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Syracuse Wurlitzer
Featuring Ralph Ringstad, theater organ

Price: $15 adults, $2 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Farnsdale Avenue Housing Estate Town Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert 'Tank' Steingraber, director

Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

Interactive murder mystery dinner theater.

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The Trojan Women
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Euripides' bleak and agonizing portrait of war's brutality inspired by a barbaric act of retribution committed on the isle of Melos during the war between Athens and Sparta, this masterpiece of pathos thrusts audiences into the pain suffered by innocent victims.

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Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The CNY premiere of the new musical comedy by Danny Goggin, creator of the Nunsense shows. The worlds favorite nuns, The Little Sisters of Hoboken, are on a brand new adventure to Las Vegas. When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Vegas, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," Reverend Mother agrees. Performing in The Pump Room "high atop the 3rd floor of the Mystique Motor Lodge in the soul of Sin City," the sisters experience "show-biz" like never before. There's more feathers, more fans, more hats and more hi-jinks.

The show stars Christine Lightcap as Rev. Mother, Kate Huddleston as Sister Hubert, Jodie Baum as Sister Robert Anne, Erin Race as Sister Amnesia, and Sofia Coon as Sister Leo. It's produced by Executive Producer Christine Lightcap and directed and choreographed by Ken Prescott, two-time Los Angeles Drama Logue Winner and three-time Desert Theatre League Award winner. Music direction is by Josh Smith, SALT Award winner for Best Music Director of the Year.

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Bare: A Pop Opera
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $20; seating is limited -- reservations recommended
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Rarely Done Productions is pleased to announce its Fat Chance Series: concert versions of those shows you'll never see done by Syracuse community theater.

The musical, set in an elite Catholic boarding school, tells the story of young love, coming to grips with one's sexual orientation, crossed signals, and tragedy set against a backdrop of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Monday, March 3, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Anne Frank -- A Private Photo Album
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This stirring exhibit consists of more than 75 black and white photographs taken by Holocaust survivor Otto Frank of his family, including his young daughter, Anne.

Many of these reproductions, from Frank's personal family album, have never before been seen by the public. The photographs were salvaged along with Anne's famous diary (now published in 67 languages) following the family's arrest.

Otto Frank was the only person in his immediate family to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

This exhibit is on loan from the Anne Frank Center, USA.

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nina Katchadourian
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Shaffer Art Building, Room 121
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography, sculpture, video and sound. She subtly and obsessively collects, organizes and interprets data from the world around her, creating new views of communication, geography, and our natural surroundings. Nina has exhibited both domestically and internationally at places like PS1/MoMA.

Presented by Matrilineage Symposium: Women-Art-Change.

Judith Weir's Armida
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Judith Weir, the Billy Joel Visiting Composer in the Setnor School of Music, presents a DVD showing and discussion of Armida, her one-hour television opera. Weir is a Scottish composer whose interests in narrative, folklore, and theater have found expression in a wide range of musical invention.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Anne Frank -- A Private Photo Album
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This stirring exhibit consists of more than 75 black and white photographs taken by Holocaust survivor Otto Frank of his family, including his young daughter, Anne.

Many of these reproductions, from Frank's personal family album, have never before been seen by the public. The photographs were salvaged along with Anne's famous diary (now published in 67 languages) following the family's arrest.

Otto Frank was the only person in his immediate family to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

This exhibit is on loan from the Anne Frank Center, USA.

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Visiting Composer Series: Judith Weir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will continue its Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music with a residency by Scottish composer Judith Weir.

The SU Symphony Orchestra's program includes Weir's The Welcome Arrival of Rain.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

Weir's interests in narrative, folklore and theater have found expression in a wide range of musical invention. She is the composer and librettist of three operas: A Night at the Chinese Opera, The Vanishing Bridegroom and Blond Eckbert. She has written music for performances in England and India with storyteller Vayu Naidu, and she has worked on numerous film and music collaborations with Margaret Williams -- most recently Armida, a one-hour television opera. In 2007, she was presented with the Queen's Medal for Music by Queen Elizabeth II of England and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, master of the queen's music. Weir has also been commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra and Carnegie Hall. Her music is published exclusively by Chester Music Ltd. and Novello and Co. Ltd.

The Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series was endowed using a portion of a gift from entertainer Billy Joel. VPA was one of seven East Coast institutions awarded gifts in fall 2005 as part of Joel's long-term commitment to music education and newly established music education initiative. The gift was also used to establish the Billy Joel Fellowships in Composition for graduate composition students in the Setnor School.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Anne Frank -- A Private Photo Album
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This stirring exhibit consists of more than 75 black and white photographs taken by Holocaust survivor Otto Frank of his family, including his young daughter, Anne.

Many of these reproductions, from Frank's personal family album, have never before been seen by the public. The photographs were salvaged along with Anne's famous diary (now published in 67 languages) following the family's arrest.

Otto Frank was the only person in his immediate family to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

This exhibit is on loan from the Anne Frank Center, USA.

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Syracuse University Oratorio Society, Elisa Macedo Dekaney, conductor; Susan Crocker, piano

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Music by Palestrina, Purcell, Telemann, Holst, and the Mozart Regina Coeli. The ensemble will draw on their own soloists and chamber musicians from the Setnor School of Music.

Visiting Composer Series: Judith Weir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Contemporary Music Ensemble and the SU Singers
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will continue its Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music with a residency by Scottish composer Judith Weir.

Included on the program are several pieces of Weir's recent choral, vocal and chamber music, including the large ensemble work Tiger Under the Table. The program will also feature a new work for chamber ensemble by Ian Hartsough, a Billy Joel Fellow in the Setnor School.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

Weir's interests in narrative, folklore and theater have found expression in a wide range of musical invention. She is the composer and librettist of three operas: A Night at the Chinese Opera, The Vanishing Bridegroom and Blond Eckbert. She has written music for performances in England and India with storyteller Vayu Naidu, and she has worked on numerous film and music collaborations with Margaret Williams -- most recently Armida, a one-hour television opera. In 2007, she was presented with the Queen's Medal for Music by Queen Elizabeth II of England and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, master of the queen's music. Weir has also been commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra and Carnegie Hall. Her music is published exclusively by Chester Music Ltd. and Novello and Co. Ltd.

The Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series was endowed using a portion of a gift from entertainer Billy Joel. VPA was one of seven East Coast institutions awarded gifts in fall 2005 as part of Joel's long-term commitment to music education and newly established music education initiative. The gift was also used to establish the Billy Joel Fellowships in Composition for graduate composition students in the Setnor School.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Anne Frank -- A Private Photo Album
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This stirring exhibit consists of more than 75 black and white photographs taken by Holocaust survivor Otto Frank of his family, including his young daughter, Anne.

Many of these reproductions, from Frank's personal family album, have never before been seen by the public. The photographs were salvaged along with Anne's famous diary (now published in 67 languages) following the family's arrest.

Otto Frank was the only person in his immediate family to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

This exhibit is on loan from the Anne Frank Center, USA.

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Film Series: Resisting Paradise
Onondaga Community College
Featuring filmmaker Barbara Hammer

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A poetic investigation within a political context that poses the question: "Can art exist during a time of political crisis and war?" (80 minutes)

Acclaimed independent filmmaker and film/video artist Barbara Hammer will lead a discussion of both the film and her work with the audience following both screenings.

Beginning with a base of correspondence between the French painters Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse during World War II, the film transcends the immediate, personal interests of the artists to delve into an exploration of the French Resistance Movement, featuring interviews with former Resistance workers (including Matisse's grandchildren).

Hammer has been a judge at the Sundance Film Festival and has had international retrospectives of her work, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France, the Berlin International Film Festival and Film Forum in Los Angeles. Last year, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. held a screening of Resisting Paradise.

Film Series: Resisting Paradise
Onondaga Community College
Featuring filmmaker Barbara Hammer

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A poetic investigation within a political context that poses the question: "Can art exist during a time of political crisis and war?" (80 minutes)

Acclaimed independent filmmaker and film/video artist Barbara Hammer will lead a discussion of both the film and her work with the audience following both screenings.

Beginning with a base of correspondence between the French painters Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse during World War II, the film transcends the immediate, personal interests of the artists to delve into an exploration of the French Resistance Movement, featuring interviews with former Resistance workers (including Matisse's grandchildren).

Hammer has been a judge at the Sundance Film Festival and has had international retrospectives of her work, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France, the Berlin International Film Festival and Film Forum in Los Angeles. Last year, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. held a screening of Resisting Paradise.

Death Takes a Cruise
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy murder mystery.

Jekyll and Hyde
Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

West Side Story
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Skaneateles High School

Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

Oklahoma!
Marcellus High School

Marcellus High School
1 Mustang Hill, Marcellus

All in the Timing
Rarely Done Productions
Brian Hensley, director

Price: Pay-what-you-can preview ($5 minimum)
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Six playful one-acts combine the cerebral, the wordplay of modern romance, and thoughts on our closest relatives on this planet contemplating the Melancholy Dane.

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Friday, March 7, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Anne Frank -- A Private Photo Album
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This stirring exhibit consists of more than 75 black and white photographs taken by Holocaust survivor Otto Frank of his family, including his young daughter, Anne.

Many of these reproductions, from Frank's personal family album, have never before been seen by the public. The photographs were salvaged along with Anne's famous diary (now published in 67 languages) following the family's arrest.

Otto Frank was the only person in his immediate family to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

This exhibit is on loan from the Anne Frank Center, USA.

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

BakeHouse Films
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free. Food and beverages available for purchase
Pascale's Bakehouse and Cafe
Hotel Syracuse, 500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

True Stones from Rug City (directed by Colin Bannon, documentary, USA, 27 min.)
This is a documentary about making a documentary. It chronicles two Dutch filmmakers, Rogier Van Eck and Rob Rombout, who are on a mission to visit all four of the world's cities named Amsterdam. They visit an unlikely tourist destination -- Amsterdam, New York. With the city's determinedly upbeat mayor acting as their tour guide, they see not only the only the city's main attraction -- a tiny park containing a bust of native son, actor Kirk Douglas, but also the now sadly vacant headquarters of the Mohawk Carpet Company. This poignant, wryly funny film registers both the hope and despair in this once thriving factory town.

Liars (directed by Nicholas Gurewitch, experimental, USA, 11 min.) Best of Fest Nominee.
It is in a state of 'slumber' that a couple unites to celebrate the truest feelings that two people can have for one another. When morning comes however, the two lovers awaken and return to a world of haste and turbulence.

Kodachrome (directed by Morgan Sheffield, animation, USA, 8 min.)
Kodachrome follows a girl living in a strange world, somewhere in the clouds as she explores the world of color. The story opens as our main character watches a film about photography, longing for such creative fulfillment. She soon receives her own camera and begins to experiment with it, finding that her flat, monochromatic world does not impress her sense of creativity as much as she's hoped.

The “BakeHouse Films” series features Best of Fest shorts and animation from the Syracuse International Film Festival archive. The programs last from 40 minutes to an hour. For more information, phone 315-443-8826.

Hyphenated Artist Series: Marty Pottenger
Partners for Art Education and Imagining America

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Award-winning solo performance artist, playwright, and union activist Marty Pottenger will host a public demonstration and discussion of her work as part of the recently announced Hyphenated Artist Series.

Pottenger currently works out of Portland's (Me.) City Hall where she uses theater, media, and oral histories to encourage people to think about issues, ask questions, and engage in dialogue with others in their communities. This free event features excerpts from her solo performances as well as a discussion of her current work, which addresses long-standing issues of discrimination and perceived prejudice within Portland's city government and the school system, with the objective of increasing equity.

Pottenger's other community-engaged performances include "home land security," a post-9/11 community arts project with political, civic and religious leaders of Portland; "Abundance," a multi-media theater work focusing on economy and financial resources from in-depth interviews with people ranging from minimum wage workers through billionaires; "Just War," from interviews with Yugoslavian veteran soldiers/paramilitary and their families with Director Ana Miljanic and the Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade Yu; and "City Water Tunnel #3," an Obie award-winning multimedia performance and visual arts exhibit about New York City's 60 year long public works project, as told through the collected stories of the people building the tunnel.

Pottenger's current work in Maine is in partnership with the city's Department of Equal Opportunity & Multicultural Affairs and the School District's Multicultural Affairs Department. One of their programs trains local artists for long term residencies in city, school, and community agencies to both make art & lead workshops  attaching a poet to the fire department, a painter to the school board, one photographer to the teachers union and another to the Department of Public Health, a musician to the mayor's office, and a storyteller to the state Christian Coalition.

Pottenger will also facilitate an arts workshop with members of the SEIU union while she is Syracuse. They will create a performance about SU workers' lives for the 2008 Ray Smith Symposium for the Humanities that will take place from April 22-24. The theme of this year's Symposium is "Art Works: The Role of the Arts in Workers Struggles."

For more information, call 315-443-8590.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra String Quartet
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

April Verch
Folkus Project

Price: $15
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Pure energy infuses the virtuoso fiddle playing and stepdancing of April Verch. Her concerts are invigorating, surprising, heartwarming, charming, thrilling, foot-stomping -- all in all, utterly unforgettable. Her music, a beguiling blend of folk, jazz, old-time, bluegrass and roots, is woven together with precision, intensity and soul. The finely detailed elegance of her fiddle phrasing is complemented by her strong, confident singing. Verch and her band have toured around the world, winning audiences over not only with technical ability, but also with charm, humor and boundless energy on stage.

The Magic of Ireland

Price: $28.50
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A stunning spectacle of traditional Irish dance, music, and song.

Don Pasquale
Syracuse Opera

Price: $17 - $155
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donizetti's comic opera centers on Don Pasquale, an old bachelor, who disapproves of his nephew Ernesto's love match and disinherits him. So Pasquale decides to marry and father an heir. Unknowingly, Pasquale marries Ernesto's love, the widow Norina, who is not the innocent he was promised. Ultiamtely true love prevails, but not before bumps and detours along the way.

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The Farnsdale Avenue Housing Estate Town Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert 'Tank' Steingraber, director

Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

Interactive murder mystery dinner theater.

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Seussical the Musical
Tully High School

Tully Junior-Senior High School
Elm St., Tully

The Music Man
Bishop Ludden Junior-Senior High School

Price: $12 reserved; $10 general admission; $8 students/seniors
Bishop Ludden Junior/Senior High School
815 Fay Rd., Geddes

Rumors
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J Barden, director

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Neil Simon's Rumors is a gut-busting, door-slamming anniversary party interrupted by a missing wife, a lawyer cover-up, and a flesh wound. The four couples arrive, dressed to the nines, and soon nobody can remember who has said what about whom. Hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more frenzied and confused.

Oklahoma!
Marcellus High School

Marcellus High School
1 Mustang Hill, Marcellus

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Skaneateles High School

Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

West Side Story
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

Jekyll and Hyde
Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

The Trojan Women
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Euripides' bleak and agonizing portrait of war's brutality inspired by a barbaric act of retribution committed on the isle of Melos during the war between Athens and Sparta, this masterpiece of pathos thrusts audiences into the pain suffered by innocent victims.

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Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version
Solvay High School

Solvay High School
600 Gertrude Ave., Solvay

All in the Timing
Rarely Done Productions
Brian Hensley, director

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Six playful one-acts combine the cerebral, the wordplay of modern romance, and thoughts on our closest relatives on this planet contemplating the Melancholy Dane.

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Friday Night Live from Redhouse
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (advance purchase recommended)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Friday Night Live from Redhouse is an improvisational comedy show similar to the hit television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? The troupe of five seasoned actors will perform a series of games and scenarios based on audience suggestion and participation.

Friday Night Live is the brainchild of Tim Mahar and Laura Austin, both products of Second City. The troupe includes the following wildly talented individuals: Tim Davis-Reed, Emily Kronenberg, Mike Borden, and introducing radio personality Glen Gomez Adams who will host the show.

Mahar and Austin have trained and performed with Second City, which is hailed as the home of "the world's greatest comedy theatre." In addition to his ongoing work with Second City in Chicago, Mahar's career includes radio and television work. He performed with "off the cuff" in Syracuse and New York and later created his own show entitled Live Radio. Austin's credits span television and film work as well as regional theatre throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The CNY premiere of the new musical comedy by Danny Goggin, creator of the Nunsense shows. The worlds favorite nuns, The Little Sisters of Hoboken, are on a brand new adventure to Las Vegas. When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Vegas, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," Reverend Mother agrees. Performing in The Pump Room "high atop the 3rd floor of the Mystique Motor Lodge in the soul of Sin City," the sisters experience "show-biz" like never before. There's more feathers, more fans, more hats and more hi-jinks.

The show stars Christine Lightcap as Rev. Mother, Kate Huddleston as Sister Hubert, Jodie Baum as Sister Robert Anne, Erin Race as Sister Amnesia, and Sofia Coon as Sister Leo. It's produced by Executive Producer Christine Lightcap and directed and choreographed by Ken Prescott, two-time Los Angeles Drama Logue Winner and three-time Desert Theatre League Award winner. Music direction is by Josh Smith, SALT Award winner for Best Music Director of the Year.

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Saturday, March 8, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Second Saturday Series: Tony Trischka
Westcott Community Center

Price: $15 (WCC members $12)
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

One of the world's most dynamic and respected banjo players, Syracuse native Tony Trischka returns to his hometown for two shows celebrating three prestigious awards, a Grammy nomination and the imminent release of a new CD. Trischka's gifts as a musician and arranger, coupled with his unrivaled knowledge of banjo history and technique, have inspired a whole generation of progressive bluegrass musicians. Tony will be joined by Michael Daves -- an amazing singer and dazzling guitarist.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-478-8634.

Brahms' Requiem
MasterWorks Chorale
Maureen McCauley, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano

Price: $15 regular, $12 students and seniors (free under 12)
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

Second Saturday Series: Tony Trischka
Westcott Community Center

Price: $15 (WCC members $12)
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

One of the world's most dynamic and respected banjo players, Syracuse native Tony Trischka returns to his hometown for two shows celebrating three prestigious awards, a Grammy nomination and the imminent release of a new CD. Trischka's gifts as a musician and arranger, coupled with his unrivaled knowledge of banjo history and technique, have inspired a whole generation of progressive bluegrass musicians. Tony will be joined by Michael Daves -- an amazing singer and dazzling guitarist.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-478-8634.

Jack and the Beanstalk
Open Hand Theater
Michael Graham

Price: $8 adults; $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

A wonderful twist on a favorite tale, where magic beans really can make wishes come true, and Jack is a hero with plenty to do! Michael Graham is a favorite with children age 5 and up.

The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy.

Jekyll and Hyde
Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version
Solvay High School

Solvay High School
600 Gertrude Ave., Solvay

West Side Story
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

Seussical the Musical
Tully High School

Tully Junior-Senior High School
Elm St., Tully

The Farnsdale Avenue Housing Estate Town Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert 'Tank' Steingraber, director

Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

Interactive murder mystery dinner theater.

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The Music Man
Bishop Ludden Junior-Senior High School

Price: $12 reserved; $10 general admission; $8 students/seniors
Bishop Ludden Junior/Senior High School
815 Fay Rd., Geddes

Rumors
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J Barden, director

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Neil Simon's Rumors is a gut-busting, door-slamming anniversary party interrupted by a missing wife, a lawyer cover-up, and a flesh wound. The four couples arrive, dressed to the nines, and soon nobody can remember who has said what about whom. Hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more frenzied and confused.

Oklahoma!
Marcellus High School

Marcellus High School
1 Mustang Hill, Marcellus

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Skaneateles High School

Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

West Side Story
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

Jekyll and Hyde
Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

The Trojan Women
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Euripides' bleak and agonizing portrait of war's brutality inspired by a barbaric act of retribution committed on the isle of Melos during the war between Athens and Sparta, this masterpiece of pathos thrusts audiences into the pain suffered by innocent victims.

Read a Review!

Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version
Solvay High School

Solvay High School
600 Gertrude Ave., Solvay

Seussical the Musical
Tully High School

Tully Junior-Senior High School
Elm St., Tully

Well Aged Words: Do-It-Yourself Jewish Stories
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Syd Lieberman

Price: $18 advance sale, $20 at the door; artist's reception $5
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Syd Lieberman is an internationally acclaimed storyteller, an award-winning teacher, and an author. He has appeared at major storytelling festivals across the country, including eight featured appearances at the National Festival in Jonesborough, TN; at the Glistening Waters Festival in New Zealand; and on American Public Radio's Good Evening as a guest storyteller and host.

Syd is one of the country's leading tellers of Jewish tales. He starred with Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame in the Chicago presentation of Do-It-Yourself Chanukah. Syd is known for his varied repertoire, his original historical pieces and his signature versions of literary tales. Many of his best-loved stories deal with growing up and raising a family in Chicago.

All in the Timing
Rarely Done Productions
Brian Hensley, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Six playful one-acts combine the cerebral, the wordplay of modern romance, and thoughts on our closest relatives on this planet contemplating the Melancholy Dane.

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Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The CNY premiere of the new musical comedy by Danny Goggin, creator of the Nunsense shows. The worlds favorite nuns, The Little Sisters of Hoboken, are on a brand new adventure to Las Vegas. When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Vegas, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," Reverend Mother agrees. Performing in The Pump Room "high atop the 3rd floor of the Mystique Motor Lodge in the soul of Sin City," the sisters experience "show-biz" like never before. There's more feathers, more fans, more hats and more hi-jinks.

The show stars Christine Lightcap as Rev. Mother, Kate Huddleston as Sister Hubert, Jodie Baum as Sister Robert Anne, Erin Race as Sister Amnesia, and Sofia Coon as Sister Leo. It's produced by Executive Producer Christine Lightcap and directed and choreographed by Ken Prescott, two-time Los Angeles Drama Logue Winner and three-time Desert Theatre League Award winner. Music direction is by Josh Smith, SALT Award winner for Best Music Director of the Year.

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An Evening of Love Songs
Opening Night Productions

Price: $18 plus cost of dinner
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The program includes more than 30 standards, show tunes and pop-style love songs such as My Funny Valentine, All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera, Makin' Whoopee, For All We Know, Fly Me To The Moon, Still from Titanic, Take Me As I Am from Jekyll & Hyde, Faithfully, Just In Time, Happily Ever After and One Alone from The Desert Song. The show stars Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, Bill Ali, Becky Bottrill.

Show Only packages are available for $28 per person. This includes the $18 theatre ticket and a $10 Glen Loch Restaurant gift certificate. The gift certificates may be used at any time for food or drink.

For reservations call the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Central New York Jazz Composer's Cooperative
Barry Blumenthal, piano; Mark Copani, guitar; Kevin Dorsey, bass; Greg McCrea, trombone

Price: $10 regular; $7 donors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Sunday Musicale: Johnston School of Irish Dance
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

TK99 Sound Check
Redhouse
Featuring Assasins of Hip and Joe Sweet

Price: $5
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Assasins of Hip and Joe Sweet will take the stage and the air live from Redhouse for Tk99 and WOUR's Sound Check.

Don Pasquale
Syracuse Opera

Price: $17 - $155
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donizetti's comic opera centers on Don Pasquale, an old bachelor, who disapproves of his nephew Ernesto's love match and disinherits him. So Pasquale decides to marry and father an heir. Unknowingly, Pasquale marries Ernesto's love, the widow Norina, who is not the innocent he was promised. Ultiamtely true love prevails, but not before bumps and detours along the way.

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The Farnsdale Avenue Housing Estate Town Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert 'Tank' Steingraber, director

Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

Interactive murder mystery dinner theater.

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The Trojan Women
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Euripides' bleak and agonizing portrait of war's brutality inspired by a barbaric act of retribution committed on the isle of Melos during the war between Athens and Sparta, this masterpiece of pathos thrusts audiences into the pain suffered by innocent victims.

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The Music Man
Bishop Ludden Junior-Senior High School

Price: $12 reserved; $10 general admission; $8 students/seniors
Bishop Ludden Junior/Senior High School
815 Fay Rd., Geddes

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Skaneateles High School

Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The CNY premiere of the new musical comedy by Danny Goggin, creator of the Nunsense shows. The worlds favorite nuns, The Little Sisters of Hoboken, are on a brand new adventure to Las Vegas. When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Vegas, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," Reverend Mother agrees. Performing in The Pump Room "high atop the 3rd floor of the Mystique Motor Lodge in the soul of Sin City," the sisters experience "show-biz" like never before. There's more feathers, more fans, more hats and more hi-jinks.

The show stars Christine Lightcap as Rev. Mother, Kate Huddleston as Sister Hubert, Jodie Baum as Sister Robert Anne, Erin Race as Sister Amnesia, and Sofia Coon as Sister Leo. It's produced by Executive Producer Christine Lightcap and directed and choreographed by Ken Prescott, two-time Los Angeles Drama Logue Winner and three-time Desert Theatre League Award winner. Music direction is by Josh Smith, SALT Award winner for Best Music Director of the Year.

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Rumors
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J Barden, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Neil Simon's Rumors is a gut-busting, door-slamming anniversary party interrupted by a missing wife, a lawyer cover-up, and a flesh wound. The four couples arrive, dressed to the nines, and soon nobody can remember who has said what about whom. Hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more frenzied and confused.